Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking / 14th Edition by Rainier P. Soriano

Before imaging, before labs, there is the examination — and Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking is how most American clinicians learned to perform one. The 14th edition keeps the format that earned it that place: the technique on one side, the abnormal findings it is meant to detect on the other, illustrated throughout.

What the book covers

• Interviewing technique, the health history, and building rapport with a patient
• A complete regional examination sequence, head to toe, with normal and abnormal findings paired
• Cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal, neurological and musculoskeletal assessment in depth
• Clinical reasoning: moving from findings to a working differential
• Examination across the lifespan, including pediatric, pregnant and older adult patients
• Documentation and how to record an examination other clinicians can use

Who it’s for

Medical, nursing, PA and NP students learning physical assessment, and clinicians returning to bedside examination after time away from it.

Edition details

• Author: Rainier P. Soriano, MD
• Editors: Rainier P. Soriano, Peter G. Szilagyi, Richard M. Hoffman and Lynn S. Bickley
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
• Edition: 14th Edition, North American
• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 978-1975218348
• Language: English

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